18-08-2023, 10:11 PM
(18-08-2023, 09:52 PM)steve Wrote: I’m not sure I agree that it wouldn’t have got extensive coverage before - it may well not have got the full rolling coverage but the UK’s most prolific killer of babies in modern times would be a major story on BBC World of any variant.But define extensive coverage. It wouldn't be surprised to see it get a package + maybe interview, even possibly getting into the headlines, but I can't see - even in the later years of World News - it beating out stories like the Canadian wildfires and can't see them sending their own on-scene reporters, which would be necessary to allow them to do their own DtLs (unless they were willing to wait for NC to finish, but that's a scheduling nightmare with a domestic story like this).
I'm also not sure it'd be a major story in any era - the initial case maybe, but the sentencing I'm not sure about. Post-2015 and especially post-2020 is fairly likely, but there are certainly some more high-minded phases the channel went through where I can see it not getting first half of a bulletin.